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Elfiq Link Balancers : Business continuity, disaster planning and compliance

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The business landscape is being forced to adapt to new demands created by recent changes, affecting processes, technology and people alike. IT and telecom decision makers now face the task of making systems available regardless of the situation that arises.

Businesses are now more regulated and need to comply with more stringent programs, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, ISO-17799 and many more. These programs have one theme in common: access to resources and devices, which can be severely affected by connectivity failures of either public or private links. Failure to satisfy these criteria may result in severe penalties and fines to the organization and its officers.

Pandemic outbreaks are now part of the disaster recovery portfolio, where, for example, the SARS outbreak in 2003 impacted telecom infrastructures of organizations in Toronto (Canada). Afraid of being infected with a new highly contagious disease, workers started telecommuting in greater than expected numbers, taxing existing infrastructures and saturating links. With other possible health concerns such as bird flu, planning telecommunications resources will be critical if organizations are to remain operational and meet the demand of unplanned mobile employees.

Elfiq Networks’ technologies enable organizations to tackle these challenges by providing the extra muscle telecom infrastructures need through the addition of multiple Internet or private WAN links to meet the demands of either compliance projects or any disaster causing a displacement of the workforce.

Elfiq Link Balancers benefits for DRP, BCP and compliance

Feature

Benefit

  • Use multiple Internet links from any provider (DSL, T1, cable modem, wireless, etc.)
  • Increase redundancy and performance in the existing infrastructure, with up to 320 links
  • Manage multiple links implemented on Layer-2 of the OSI model
  • Seamlessly integrate with any router, firewall or device
  • Ease of use and configuration
  • Add links and manage the unit effortlessly to meet demand or new projects
  • iDNS Module
  • Ensures domain name resolution when a link fails so servers will remain accessible
  • Intelligent Service Verificator
  • Verifies if a server is available or not before passing traffic
  • Geolink Geographic Balancing
  • Enables incoming and/or outgoing geographic traffic management based on customer-defined rules and link availability